page_title: Chicken fried steak
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Chicken fried steak / Variants
caption_attribution_description: English: A white oval plate with chicken fried steak covered with chipotle cream gravy, macaroni and cheese, and vegetables (carrots, yellow squash, and zucchini) as served by the Moonshine Patio Bar &amp; Grill at 303 Red River Street in Austin, Texas, USA. According to their online menu as viewed on 2009-08-14, they serve their entrees (main dishes) with "seasonal vegetables &amp; choice of one side" included in the purchase price. Photographer's comment: "A tasty heart attack waiting to happen."
context_page_description: Chicken fried steak, also known as country-fried steak, is an American breaded cutlet dish consisting of a piece of beefsteak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is sometimes associated with the Southern cuisine of the United States. It is breaded and fried with a technique similar to the more common fried chicken, hence "chicken fried."
  Chicken fried steak resembles the Austrian dish Wiener schnitzel and the Italian–South American dish milanesa, which is a tenderized veal or pork cutlet, coated with flour, eggs, chicken stock cube, and bread crumbs, and then fried. It is also similar to the recipe for Scottish collops.
context_section_description: Typically, in Texas and surrounding states, chicken fried steak is either deep fried or fried in a thick layer of oil in a pan and served with traditional peppered milk gravy.
  Regionally, chicken fried steak may be known as country fried steak. While some recipes and restaurants will use a traditional peppered milk gravy on country fried steak, a variant using a brown, beef stock based gravy with onions is common, and is the primary difference between the two dishes in regions where both are served.
caption: Chicken fried steak with chipotle cream gravy
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